The Hawaiian gazette., 1887-11-15


Minister Green made a verbal state
ment in answer to a question Of Noble
Smith about the mOdus Operandi Of ex-
amining the passports of the Chinese =
landed on the Belgie, thar he had
written a note to the Collector General
requesting that particular care be ex-
ercised in examining the passports.
and he believed the officers had done
their duty as well as they could.
Minister ThurstOn stated that II
had received from the President of the
Board of Health, the statistics Of lep-
ers, asked for by Rep. Helekuniii.
yesterday, which ne now read:
1. There are now at the Branch Hos
pital, KakaakO, male lepers, 60; fe-
male, IS; total, l0I; not including II
nOn-leper girls at Kapiolani Home.
,. November 8, 1857, there were at
KalawaO and Kalaupapa. male lepers.
lbs; female lepeTs, 23l; total $50.
3. June 80, 1857, there We're at the
leper settlement on Molokai, male.
lepeTs, SIS; female is; total 543; atA
the Branch Hospital, Kakaako.
males, SO; females, Is; total 10G Total
at NIolOkai and Kakaako, males, III:
females, DDS; total, $40.
I. Since July l, 1887, there have been
collected, male lepers, 50; female, so;
total, 155.
). There has been little or no at
tempt made to classify the lepeFs. or
keep the different grades apart from
each other.
Lately many of the worst cases have
been sent to MOlOkai.
The Minister added that the Govern
ment had intended to erect a Teceiv-N
ing station on the water front near tie
immigration depot, but prOpertySDtn-
ers had demonstrated against ~ so
strongly, that the idea was abandoned,
and it is now decided to fence off
portion Of the Kakaako grounds r.
that purpose.
QUESTIONS ASKED MINISTERS.
Noble Young put the following 10
the Minister Of Finance:
l. Who were the authorized agents
of this Government i'll connection with
the English Loan?
,. What were they Individually 20
be paid?
t. What expenses We're to be paid?
I. What has been paid.
}. What is still payable?
The Minister answered verbally.
The answer to the first question ap-
peared i'll his statement read on Tues
day and is now being printed. The
answer to the second was that he knew
nothing about it, and there We're no
records in his office from which the
information could be gathered The
answer to the third question was that
he knew nothing whatever. To the
fourth question he answered that OF
January 18th, Mr.. Geo. w. Mac
farlane's draft for $500 in favor OF
Skinner q Co., had been paid and on
the same date, two other drafts, for
1920 and $3.50, were paid, and Nov
ember 9th, q draft OF sos 90, was
paid. Total of these four drafts, 81, 476 60,
(which is charged to expense Of Loan
Fund. In answer to question five, he
did not know what was to be paid.
There is in the bank a draft by G.. w.
Macfarlane in favor of Skinner 80,
for $3.50 drawn OF the Minister Of
nance. Had no advice on il. In
Cabinet refused to accept it, and when
it comes due will refuse to pay it.
The Ministers had asked Mr. Mae
farlane with regard to the remunera-
ton he was to receive. He informed
them that he had received one per-
cent. of the goo, 600. With regard to
Armstrong; remuneration there va
little known beyond hearsay. He had
tried to obtain a commission for his
services from the late Government
which Gibson had refused but promised
to throw all the business he could In
the way of Skinner & Co.
Noble Dole asked the Minister of
Finance to inform the House in regard
to the disposition Of theamOuntO of S75,-
BOO said to be "expenses floating
lOan,n stating in detail, item by item,
how and for what purposes the said
sum was expended, to whom paid, and
whether he has in his possession the
relating to the same.
Minister Green said there are no de
ails whatever of a single cent Of that
money. The only thing to indicate
what may have been done with il wasr
/ memorandum left by Mr. Hofnung
when here on his way to Australia.
All the Information obtained by the
Ministers from Mr.. Macfarlane was
unsatisfactory. 1t came about to this:
After paying the syndicate > per cent.
o float the loan, our agents had paid
15,0 900 to help float it, The Ministers
rad absolutely repudiated the el5,O00
rom beginning to end.
RESOLUTIONS.
Rep. G. Brown moved the following:
WHEREAS, His Excellency the Min
ster of Interior has stated upon the
ioOr of this House that the present
Ministry has paid out money from the
Treasury upon Cabinet resolutions
llone authorizing such payments;
therefore, be il
Resolved, That the Minister z IF
lance furnish this House with a iist0f q.
III such payments, aud that the same ~
% considered with the amendments 10
he Appropriation Bill Carried.
Rep. PaehaOle moved that, as the
Stand of Moiokai was the worst
neglected spot in the Kingdom, the
Minister of Interior send the Superin-
endent of Public Works to that island
md its dependencies, to ascertain the
Of the public landings, roads,
ridges and other public works and
epOrt.
Minister Thurston soid sha4 Wr